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This picture taken on November 24, 2018 shows a carved black wooden sarcophagus inlaid with gilded sheets, dating to Egypt's Late period (7th-4th century BC), lying in a burial chamber decorated with colored scenes depicting the owner with members of his family, discovered by an Egyptian archaelogical mission at the site of Tomb TT28 at Al-Assasif necropolis on the west bank of the Nile north of the southern Egyptian city of Luxor. (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
November 25, 2018, 3:15 am
Egypt unveils ancient Luxor tomb ‘with very nice paintings’
Site belonging to mummification supervisor Thaw-Irkhet-If contains sarcophagi, statues and some 1,000 funerary figurines
By AFP
This undated photo shows one of the oldest villages ever found in the Nile Delta, with remains dating back to before the pharaohs in Tell el-Samara, about 140 kilometers (87 miles) north of Cairo, Egypt. (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities via AP)
September 2, 2018, 6:41 pm
Egypt says village found in Nile Delta predated pharaohs
Neolithic site discovered in Tell el-Samara containing food silos, animal bones, indicating human habitation as early as 5000 BCE
By AP
A white mass identified as ancient Egyptian cheese (University of Catania and Cairo University)
August 17, 2018, 9:49 pm
World’s ‘most ancient’ solid cheese found in dug up Egyptian jar
Scientists say whitish solidified mass discovered in ancient tomb is 3,200 years old, made of cow and goat milk
By MENNA ZAKI
US President Donald Trump speaks before signing the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 24, 2018. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)
July 13, 2018, 1:47 pm
Before Trump, the long history of fake news
Lies masquerading as news existed long before the 45th US president and the advent of social media
By Olivier THIBAULT
Brent Chaim Spodek
March 30, 2018, 5:10 pm
Brent Chaim Spodek
No monsters, no messiahs
Moses was known for his outbursts of passion, but he didn’t make a difference until he had a plan and stuck to it.
Archaeologists work on mummies found in the New Kingdom tomb that belongs to a royal goldsmith, in a burial shaft, in Luxor, Egypt, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
September 10, 2017, 1:30 am
3,500-year-old pharonic tomb of royal goldsmith unearthed in Luxor
Worksmith’s art was dedicated to the ancient Egyptian god Amun; Egyptian officials tout find in bid to revive ailing tourism industry
By Nariman El-Mofty
French Anita Quiles, a researcher in the French Institute of Eastern Archaeology (IFAO) in Cairo, stands near local staff at a dating laboratory inside the institute on May 14, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI)
August 4, 2017, 7:40 am
Egyptologists go high tech to unlock ancient mysteries
Some archaeologists pin hopes on sophisticated technology to locate the burial place of the legendary queen Nefertiti
By Emmanuel Parisse
A skeleton of an adult from 3,200 years ago, found at Tel Gezer. (Tandy Institute for Archaeology)
July 19, 2017, 11:49 am
Biblical account of Gezer’s destruction gains ground with torched skeleton finds
The Gezer Excavation Project’s final season matches religious narrative with other archaeological evidence that could prove biblical connection to site
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Foreign tourists visit the Hatshepsut Temple, in Luxor, Egypt.(photo credit: AP/Nasser Nasser)
From the WebApril 20, 2017, 2:29 am
Egypt unveils massive restored statue of Ramses II
When the 75-ton bust of the most celebrated of the ancient Pharaohs was discovered in 1958 and 1960, it was in 57 pieces, Reuters reports
Egyptians pose for pictures next to the head of a statue at the site of a new discovery by a team of German-Egyptian archeologists in Cairo's Mattarya district on March 9, 2017. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
March 10, 2017, 3:26 am
Mammoth pharaonic statues unearthed from muddy Cairo pit
26-foot-tall colossus believed to be Ramses II and massive bust of Seti II, over 3,000 years old, found in vacant area between apartment blocks
By AFP
Yoseif Bloch
January 20, 2017, 7:57 am
Yoseif Bloch
Make Egypt great again!
The pharaoh who ‘knew not Joseph’ was hostile to his legacy and driven to undo his reforms; the rest is (biblical) history
An Egyptian-made statue of Ramses III, using finer materials and tools than those made by the Canaanites (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
March 10, 2016, 11:33 am
The Canaanites who loved Pharaoh, on display at the Israel Museum
Jerusalem’s latest grand-scale exhibit reveals an unlikely, world-changing exchange of rituals and objects in ancient times
By Jessica Steinberg
An artist's rendition of Solomon's First Temple (YouTube screen capture)
December 25, 2015, 1:35 am
Egyptian paper claims Jewish Temple was never in Jerusalem
Article seeks to deny Jewish connection to ‘Al-Quds’, says Jews’ place of worship was actually a converted Egyptian building in the Galilee
By Lee Gancman
A picture shows a relief inside the tomb of Maia, the wet-nurse of legendary Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun, in Saqqara, about 35 kilometers south of Cairo on December 20, 2015. (AFP/KHALED DESOUKI)
December 21, 2015, 7:39 am
King Tut’s wet nurse was likely his sister
As tomb opens to public, archaeologists still unable to unravel mummy mommy mystery over who birthed famous boy king of ancient Egypt
By AFP
Presidential candidate Ben Carson, M.D., smiles and shakes hands with local residents during his book-signing event in Lake Sumter Landing, The Villages, Florida, on November 2, 2015. (George Horsford/Daily Sun via AP)
November 6, 2015, 2:58 am
Experts dismiss Carson’s pyramids theory
Presidential hopeful says sites built by Joseph, used for grain storage; scholars say they were tombs for pharaohs
By Bill Barrow and Jesse J. Holland
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